This can also be a very useful tool for elementary school students. So, you may want to also produce a junior-writerKata version. While adults would not pay for themselves for writerKata, as "parents" they would be more willing to pay for it for their children to improve their writing skills.
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#13I am a (web) programmer by day, writer by night. I've written a couple novels, unpublished so far. A few weeks ago I sat down to sharpen the saw and after struggling to come up with something to write about, I realized I could use a tool to give me random writing exercises so I can focus on the writing itself. Something like a writing prompt, but more compelling and interactive. Inspired by the practice of coding kat…
Very cool.
One question – I noticed that you're doing some validation of the inputs (i.e., I can't seem to submit a sentence without a period) – could you explain the reasoning for this?
On the one hand, it seems fairly constraining (and probably comes with a few unfortunate edge cases). On the other, perhaps that's the benefit of the kata philosophy.
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#14For someone that excelled at writing at school but never took it any further than that, this was an excellent experience for me to get me thinking about writing creatively again.
What would be amazing is to let me not progress until I successfully met some of the grammar conditions that were placed upon the sentences/paragraphs (eg. I had to google what an appositive was) but was not sure if I successfully used it correctly.
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#15Thank you.
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#16I am surprised at myself, but I love this! I've been at it for maybe 20 mins & want to quit. But I haven't yet.
PLEASE PLEASE make some way to share/see others' responses!
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#17I am a (web) programmer by day, writer by night. I've written a couple novels, unpublished so far. A few weeks ago I sat down to sharpen the saw and after struggling to come up with something to write about, I realized I could use a tool to give me random writing exercises so I can focus on the writing itself. Something like a writing prompt, but more compelling and interactive. Inspired by the practice of coding kat…
Thank you for this. I'm a hobby writer as well, and this seems very helpful. Kudos!
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#18I am a (web) programmer by day, writer by night. I've written a couple novels, unpublished so far. A few weeks ago I sat down to sharpen the saw and after struggling to come up with something to write about, I realized I could use a tool to give me random writing exercises so I can focus on the writing itself. Something like a writing prompt, but more compelling and interactive. Inspired by the practice of coding kat…
Look I am not a writer and I think this is excellent idea. You applied martial arts transdfer on coding to writing.
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#19My writing skills suck. This would be really helpful!
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#20I am surprised at myself, but I love this! I've been at it for maybe 20 mins & want to quit. But I haven't yet. PLEASE PLEASE make some way to share/see others' responses!
Thanks, I plan to make it more obvious in the near future, but if you click on a user profile from the 'Board' you will see 'public cycles' towards the bottom. If you click on those you can read cycles people have made public.